OT: When did an 18% tip become mandatory?

[Willynowei]

Originally Posted by Dedhed

Talking in a more aggressive tone and adding insults doesn't cover up the fact that you're wrong. 8% has nothing to do with servers, it's the baseline for the establishment, not the servers.

Originally Posted by DHallblows

Yeah, reposting the part of your link that proved you incorrect isn't the best path to take in this discussion...

This is hilarious, is it really worth it to argue w/ me instead of really doing your homework on this subject and actually learning something?

Okay, i'm not even going to help you two ****ing idiots out. Go ahead, figure that **** out, then prove me and my condescending ass incorrect (I'll give you a slight hint, its impossible cause I'm correct). Until then, I'm TELLING you that you have no clue, and you need to do some homework before trying to pretend you know what you're talking about, how's that?

[DHallblows]

I think that's been my issue all along...I haven't been putting 6 identical emoticons in my responses.

[Play2win]

Taxes wouldn't be so bad, if we weren't so over freakin' Taxed every time we went out to eat.

I don't care if it's 15% or 20% that's still way too much to get taxed, just to get a mfing meal.

[Beantown Bronco]

Originally Posted by Drunk idiot kicker

I don't care if it's 15% or 20% that's still way too much to get taxed, just to get a mfing meal.

Solution = grocery store + cook yourself + serve yourself + clear table + do your own dishes.

[TheReverend]

Originally Posted by Beantown Bronco

Solution = grocery store + cook yourself + serve yourself + clear table + do your own dishes.

This.

And if people were more concerned with the calorie density in meals when they ate out instead of tip and tax %, we wouldnt have nearly the obesity and healthcare issues that we currently do.

[cutthemdown]

Don't forget to tip musicians and the bands! Even if they stink you tip them to stop.

[GreatBronco16]

Originally Posted by Beantown Bronco

Solution = grocery store + cook yourself + serve yourself + clear table + do your own dishes.

That's why I'm married with children.

[Requiem]

I'd rather spend $20 bucks on groceries a week getting bomb food and make meals for myself than go out and spend $20 bucks on a microwaved bake potato and crappy burger from most joints. All it takes is a little effort. The amount of people I see at the drive thru's when I'm going down main street on lunch break is insane. No wonder everyone is fat and ugly.

[Play2win]

Originally Posted by Beantown Bronco

Solution = grocery store + cook yourself + serve yourself + clear table + do your own dishes.

And a heck of a lot healthier and cleaner for you in many cases.

Especially down here in florida... Horror stories... Don't ever go to a all-U-can-eat buffet in florida...

[Play2win]

Originally Posted by cutthemdown

Don't forget to tip musicians and the bands! Even if they stink you tip them to stop.

Now that I'm all for...

[tesnyde]

Jason's Deli = good food + healthy options + free ice cream cone for kids + no tip= happy dad

[SportinOne]

Originally Posted by crush17

20% is standard, not 18. Don't be cheap, this is how servers make a living...

Now delivery guys on the other hand....

What does that mean

I'm a delivery driver myself (chinese), and I make waiter's wage plus a one dollar delivery fee for all orders under $15. Often, on a big order that is close to the edge of our delivery radius, it probably figures out mathematically that I am paying to deliver the food if they don't tip. Most nights I make out pretty well but it's also highly stressful (many many deliveries and lots of car/foot traffic to maneuver... plus many drunks and people that have busted door bells/buzzers and don't answer their phones [multiple trips, awesome!]).

Long story short, many drivers don't make minimum wage and aside from the conditional delivery fees are not reimbursed for gas/car maintenance. Please tip your delivery drivers if you are satisfied with their service.

[Beantown Bronco]

Originally Posted by Drunk idiot kicker

Don't ever go to a all-U-can-eat buffet in florida...

[That One Guy]

Originally Posted by SportinOne

What does that mean

I'm a delivery driver myself (chinese), and I make waiter's wage plus a one dollar delivery fee for all orders under $15. Often, on a big order that is close to the edge of our delivery radius, it probably figures out mathematically that I am paying to deliver the food if they don't tip. Most nights I make out pretty well but it's also highly stressful (many many deliveries and lots of car/foot traffic to maneuver... plus many drunks and people that have busted door bells/buzzers and don't answer their phones [multiple trips, awesome!]).

Long story short, many drivers don't make minimum wage and aside from the conditional delivery fees are not reimbursed for gas/car maintenance. Please tip your delivery drivers if you are satisfied with their service.

What is fair in this department? I usually do like $3 but there's really no precedent.

[Eldorado]

Originally Posted by TheReverend

This.

And if people were more concerned with the calorie density in meals when they ate out instead of tip and tax %, we wouldnt have nearly the obesity and healthcare issues that we currently do.

You callin' me fat, a$$hole?

[JDB7821]

Originally Posted by SportinOne

What does that mean

I'm a delivery driver myself (chinese), and I make waiter's wage plus a one dollar delivery fee for all orders under $15. Often, on a big order that is close to the edge of our delivery radius, it probably figures out mathematically that I am paying to deliver the food if they don't tip. Most nights I make out pretty well but it's also highly stressful (many many deliveries and lots of car/foot traffic to maneuver... plus many drunks and people that have busted door bells/buzzers and don't answer their phones [multiple trips, awesome!]).

Long story short, many drivers don't make minimum wage and aside from the conditional delivery fees are not reimbursed for gas/car maintenance. Please tip your delivery drivers if you are satisfied with their service.

I'm a delivery driver as well, but in a much better situation than you apparently. I get $8.25 an hour (NOT standard, but $7.25 is) and .89 per delivery. It's rare that I make less than $17/hr without the .89 reimbursement that I don't include because I don't feel it's income.

[JDB7821]

Originally Posted by That One Guy

What is fair in this department? I usually do like $3 but there's really no precedent.

$3 is about the average all tips come out to be. $5 is pretty awesome and $10 can make even the most depressed delivery person's day.

[cutthemdown]

i think delivery drivers should get paid enough to not need a tip. Valet you have to tip, and for godssake men don't take a mint from bathroom attendent and not tip the dude. One of my favorite people to tip is the old black man who works one of the bathrooms at a posh restaurant my band sometimes gets gigs at. He has everything a man could need in a fix!.

[GreatBronco16]

Originally Posted by cutthemdown

i think delivery drivers should get paid enough to not need a tip. Valet you have to tip, and for godssake men don't take a mint from bathroom attendent and not tip the dude. One of my favorite people to tip is the old black man who works one of the bathrooms at a posh restaurant my band sometimes gets gigs at. He has everything a man could need in a fix!.

I've never been to a place that had a bathroom attendant. But if I'm going to tip that guy that has mints and gives you a towel to dry your hands, than that mofo is going to wipe my ass with some baby wipes.

[That One Guy]

Originally Posted by GreatBronco16

I've never been to a place that had a bathroom attendant. But if I'm going to tip that guy that has mints and gives you a towel to dry your hands, than that mofo is going to wipe my ass with some baby wipes.

I think everywhere I've been that had bathroom attendants also had women getting nekked for $1 bills. I wonder if that says something about me...

[chadta]

Originally Posted by That One Guy

I think everywhere I've been that had bathroom attendants also had women getting nekked for $1 bills. I wonder if that says something about me...

In myrtle beach I was at a place that had a female bathroom attendant, she had the top hat and suspenders on, looked better than half the girls on stage.

[That One Guy]

Originally Posted by chadta

In myrtle beach I was at a place that had a female bathroom attendant, she had the top hat and suspenders on, looked better than half the girls on stage.

I f'ing hate when that happens. I've never had the chick in the bathroom (that's just asking for trouble) but I've been to a few before peak times when the waitresses outclassed the dancers so bad it wasn't even funny. Not always because the dancers were that bad, either. Just some hot chicks will push it to cocktail waitressing then tease us as they won't take the last step.

[That One Guy]

Oh, and am I the only one that hears "Myrtle Beach" and "stripper" in the same sentence and thinks, " Should've stayed in Texas, b****"?

[broncocalijohn]

Originally Posted by chadta

In myrtle beach I was at a place that had a female bathroom attendant, she had the top hat and suspenders on, looked better than half the girls on stage.

So when did you quit your job and take her back to her hometown and get her knocked up?

[Tombstone RJ]

A woman bathroom attendant in a men's bathroom, really, this happens? That's just wrong. I feel horrible for the gal who has that job.

Do women's rooms have bathroom attendants, or just men's rooms? I've been in men's rooms with bathroom attendants before and I never could figure out why they were there. So, are the in the ladies rooms too?